# edwardtufte/tufte-css

Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.

Repository: https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tufte-css
Homepage: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: css, tufte-css
Last push: 2026-06-24T23:15:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4340, "days_push": 70, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6546, forks 483 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.112627+00:00)

## What it is
Tufte CSS is a CSS-only stylesheet that styles HTML web articles in the distinctive style of Edward Tufte's handouts, featuring careful typography, extensive sidenotes, and tight integration of graphics and text. You use it by copying tufte.css and the et-book font directory into your project and linking the stylesheet in your HTML head.

## Use cases
- style a web article with Tufte-like typography and sidenotes
- make a blog post look like an Edward Tufte handout
- add elegant sidenotes and margin notes to HTML pages
- find a minimal CSS stylesheet for long-form reading
- typeset essays with et-book fonts and clean headings
- integrate charts and graphics tightly with article text

## When to choose
- you want a pure CSS, JavaScript-free way to style long-form HTML articles
- you like Tufte's print aesthetic: sidenotes, et-book fonts, simple layout
- you want a lightweight, feature-complete stylesheet you can drop into any HTML page

## When to avoid
- you need JavaScript-enhanced sidenotes or interactive behavior
- you need print/PDF styling or built-in static site generator integration
- you expect active feature development - the project is maintained but essentially feature-complete

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: css-framework, ui-components, templating
- domain: web-development, web-design, frontend, documentation
- platform: browser
- tags: typography, sidenotes, tufte, css-only, article-styling, et-book-fonts, web-server

## Member repositories
- edwardtufte/tufte-css (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.112627+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:05.782395+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/edwardtufte/tufte-css (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.112627+00:00, sha 1e7611631822)
  - homepage: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:40:20.603182+00:00, sha f6af91a5ace7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.